SSP: Safety-guaranteed Surgical Policy via Joint Optimization of Behavioral and Spatial Constraints

This paper introduces the Safety-guaranteed Surgical Policy (SSP) framework, which integrates Neural ODE-based uncertainty modeling with robust Control Barrier Functions to enforce behavioral and spatial constraints, thereby ensuring near-zero safety violations while maintaining high task success rates in data-driven robot-assisted surgery.

Jianshu Hu, ZhiYuan Guan, Lei Song, Kantaphat Leelakunwet, Hesheng Wang, Wei Xiao, Qi Dou, Yutong Ban2026-03-10💻 cs

Self-Supervised Multi-Modal World Model with 4D Space-Time Embedding

The paper introduces DeepEarth, a self-supervised multi-modal world model featuring Earth4D, a novel 4D space-time positional encoder that achieves state-of-the-art ecological forecasting performance and outperforms larger foundation models through efficient planetary-scale learning.

Lance Legel, Qin Huang, Brandon Voelker, Daniel Neamati, Patrick Alan Johnson, Favyen Bastani, Jeff Rose, James Ryan Hennessy, Robert Guralnick, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Shaowen Wang2026-03-10💻 cs

Looking Back and Forth: Cross-Image Attention Calibration and Attentive Preference Learning for Multi-Image Hallucination Mitigation

This paper proposes CAPL, a framework that mitigates multi-image hallucinations in large vision-language models by introducing a selectable image token interaction mechanism for fine-grained cross-image alignment and a preference learning strategy that trains the model to rely on genuine visual evidence rather than textual priors.

Xiaochen Yang, Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Yaoxin Mao, Bin Chen, Shu-Tao Xia2026-03-10💻 cs

Communication Network-Aware Missing Data Recovery for Enhanced Distribution Grid Visibility

This paper proposes a communication network-aware framework that integrates routing constraints with low-rank matrix completion to mitigate spatially correlated data losses and significantly improve missing data recovery accuracy in power distribution grids compared to traditional measurement-only approaches.

Biswas Rudra Jyoti Arka, Md Zahidul Islam, Yuzhang Lin, Vinod M. Vokkarane, Junbo Zhao2026-03-10💻 cs

Animating Petascale Time-varying Data on Commodity Hardware with LLM-assisted Scripting

This paper presents a user-friendly framework that enables domain scientists to generate 3D animations of petascale, time-varying climate data on commodity hardware using an LLM-assisted conversational interface, thereby eliminating the need for specialized visualization expertise and high-performance computing resources.

Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Xuan Huang, Aashish Panta, Alper Sahistan, Zhimin Li, Amy A. Gooch, Valerio Pascucci2026-03-10💻 cs

Bi-directional digital twin prototype anchoring with multi-periodicity learning for few-shot fault diagnosis

This paper proposes a bi-directional digital twin prototype anchoring framework enhanced with multi-periodicity learning to achieve robust few-shot fault diagnosis by leveraging meta-training in a virtual simulation space and test-time adaptation in the physical domain, thereby overcoming the limitations of traditional methods that require abundant labeled or unlabeled target data.

Pengcheng Xia, Zhichao Dong, Yixiang Huang, Chengjin Qin, Qun Chao, Chengliang Liu2026-03-10💻 cs

GuideTWSI: A Diverse Tactile Walking Surface Indicator Dataset from Synthetic and Real-World Images for Blind and Low-Vision Navigation

This paper introduces GuideTWSI, a diverse dataset combining synthetic and real-world images to address the scarcity of Tactile Walking Surface Indicator (TWSI) data, specifically bridging the gap between East Asian directional bars and North American/European truncated domes to improve navigation safety for blind and low-vision individuals.

Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Anh N. H. Nguyen, Parth Goel, Krisha Adhikari, Sunghoon I. Lee, Joydeep Biswas, Nicholas A. Giudice, Donghyun Kim2026-03-10💻 cs